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Nib Literary Award 2023 shortlist announced

Monday, 4 September 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: An Intimate History of Evolution: The story of the Huxley family (Alison...

Ned Kelly Awards 2023 winners announced

The winning book covers from the 2023 Ned Kelly Awards: The Lemon Man, Wake, Exiles and Betrayed Monday, 4 September 2023
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the winners of the 2023 Ned Kelly Awards. The 2023 winners are: Best debut crime fiction Wake (Shelley Burr, Hachette) Best crime...

Davitt Awards 2023 winners announced

Monday, 4 September 2023
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the winners of the 2023 Davitt Awards for best crime books by Australian women. The winning titles in each category are: Adult novel All...

We Come With This Place sold to UK 

Friday, 1 September 2023
Echo Publishing has sold UK and Commonwealth (ex ANZ) rights to Debra Dank’s We Come With This Place to Footnote Press. Earlier this year, We Come With This Place won...

PRH half-year revenue up 9%

Thursday, 31 August 2023
Penguin Random House’s (PRH) global revenue grew 9% in the six months to 30 June, compared to the same period last year. In its half-yearly results, parent company Bertelsmann reported...

Meet the publishers: new small presses to watch 

Wednesday, 30 August 2023
The pandemic: book buyers rediscovered their love of reading, authors made use of lockdowns to write, but for some, it was all about publishing. Here, we profile five publishers launched...

UQP acquires second novel from Siang Lu 

An author photograph of Siang Lu, who is looking directly at the camera, while standing in front of some trees. Wednesday, 30 August 2023
UQP has acquired world rights to Siang Lu’s second novel, Ghost Cities, via Brendan Fredericks of BFredericksPR. Ghost Cities is ‘inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China’. Described by...

Hawker Brownlow to cease operations 

Tuesday, 29 August 2023
Hawker Brownlow Education has announced that it will cease operations on 1 September 2023 after over 40 years in the educational publishing industry, according to a statement posted to its...

BA relaunches Shopfloor Publishers scheme

Tuesday, 29 August 2023
In the UK, the Booksellers Association (BA) is relaunching its Shopfloor Publishers scheme, which invites publishers to spend a day working in a bookshop, reports the Bookseller. The Shopfloor Publishers...

Boffins bookseller joins Fremantle Press 

Tuesday, 29 August 2023
Former Boffins Books sales and marketing assistant Adam Matthews has joined Fremantle Press as a publicist. ‘Adam has been on our radar for some time,’ said Fremantle CEO Alex Allan...

UQP sells North American rights to ‘Personal Score’ 

A cover image of Personal Score by Ellen van Neerven, featuring the book's title and author over a hexagonal patterned background Monday, 28 August 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold North American rights to Ellen van Neerven’s nonfiction book Personal Score: Sport. Culture. Identity to Eric Obenauf at Ohio publisher Two Dollar Radio....

Zhan wins 2023 KYD Creative Nonfiction Essay Prize

On the left of this combined image is a blue square containing the text ‘Kill Your Darlings Creative Non-Fiction Essay Prize’. On the right is an author photograph of Xiaole Zhan. Monday, 28 August 2023
Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced Xiaole Zhan as the winner of the 2023 KYD Creative Nonfiction Essay Prize for their essay ‘Think an Empty Room, Moonly with Phone Glow’....

Winn awarded Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2023

Monday, 28 August 2023
In the UK, Alice Winn has won the £5000 (A$9815) Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize for In Memoriam (Viking), reports the Bookseller. In Memoriam traces a love story between two First World...

Jawando wins YA Book Prize

Friday, 25 August 2023
In the UK, Danielle Jawando has won the 2023 YA Book Prize for her second novel When Our Worlds Collided (Simon & Schuster Children’s), reports the Bookseller. Described as a ‘raw, powerful and thought...

Transit Lounge acquires Hooper’s debut novel 

Friday, 25 August 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Matthew Hooper’s debut novel A Cold Season. ‘This pitch-perfect novel is rich in voice, character and landscape and unlike anything I have read...

Readings Young Adult Prize 2023 shortlist announced

Thursday, 24 August 2023
Readings has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Readings Young Adult Book Prize. This year’s six shortlisted books are: Dancing Barefoot (Alice Boyle, Text) Spice Road (Maiya Ibrahim, Hodderscape) Completely...

Australia Reads announces Volume symposium program

Thursday, 24 August 2023
Australia Reads has announced the program for Volume, a free day-long symposium dedicated to creating a stronger reading culture in Australia, to be held on 21 September. The symposium, first...

NewSouth acquires Clift autobiographical novel 

Thursday, 24 August 2023
NewSouth Publishing has acquired world rights to Charmian Clift’s unfinished novel The End of the Morning, via Jane Novak Literary Agency. The autobiographical novel about a young woman coming of...

Readings Children’s Book Prize 2023 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 23 August 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 Readings Children’s Book Prize has been announced. This year’s six shortlisted books are: The Bookseller’s Apprentice (Amelia Mellor, Affirm) The Eerie Excavation (An Alice England...

 

 

 

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